Chapter 306
Lei Tingjun turned his head and looked at Ji Wanmei.
His gaze fell upon her delicate and beautiful face, her pert nose, and his dark, cold eyes beneath his brows instantly softened.
The aura emanating from a person can change in the blink of an eye.
Ji Wanmei put the earphone plugs into Lei Tingjun's ears, and Teresa Teng's "Tian Mi Mi" began to play lightly and melodiously in his eardrums.
Ji Wanmei really enjoyed listening to this cassette tape; it was a gift from Lei Tingjun.
There are several other albums with songs by other singers, and even one album with songs by a foreign singer, but Ji Wanmei's favorite album is always this one.
Teresa Teng's "Sweet Honey" can be considered the love song between Ji Wanmei and Lei Tingjun.
The train has started its journey, and the scenery outside the window flashes by.
After leaving the city and entering the vast fields and forests, the view outside the window began to open up and become clear.
Ji Wanmei rested her head on Lei Tingjun's shoulder, and the two shared a song, the scenery outside the window, and the warm and peaceful mood of the moment.
Lei Tingjun's tense body was soothed silently by Ji Wanmei's gentleness, and he relaxed as well. He put his arm around Ji Wanmei's shoulder, and the two sat leaning against each other, quietly listening to the song.
After a while, Lei Tingjun took out a book to read.
It was a book that Professor Liang gave him.
Because Lei Tingjun has been busy lately and has had little time to attend classes at school, Professor Liang found some reference books for him to read first, and told him to ask him questions when he returned to school if there was anything he didn't understand.
Taking advantage of the rare free time on the train, when he had nothing to do, Lei Tingjun took out the architecture book to read.
Ji Wanmei didn't bring any books. They came out to buy goods, so there was no need to bring books.
The total plan was three days and two nights, with about two days spent on the train.
Ji Wanmei listened to the song, tilted her head, and read the book in Lei Tingjun's hand for a while.
The architectural design reference structural diagrams that Professor Liang found for him were all relatively rare; such books are generally hard to find in libraries.
Ji Wanmei knew that Lei Tingjun was interested in this.
Ji Wanmei could understand the drawings, but she had just introduced a lady to Mrs. Luo last week who had ordered a cheongsam. She had been drawing the design for two nights in a row, and she was feeling a little sleepy.
The train swayed and rocked, and within two hours, Ji Wanmei fell asleep leaning against Lei Tingjun.
The weather in May and June is a bit hot, around 30 degrees Celsius, but not hot enough to make people sweat.
However, Lei Tingjun glanced at the window that was pulled up and closed it.
They were worried that Ji Wanmei, who was asleep, would catch a cold.
The passenger opposite, who had also been reading, looked up after a while, noticing that the wind had stopped blowing in, and saw that Lei Tingjun had closed the window.
There are four beds in a sleeper room, sharing a window, and there is a small table on each side.
The passenger probably felt stuffy with the window closed and no wind. He glanced at Lei Tingjun and hesitated before speaking.
Lei Tingjun said calmly, "My girlfriend is asleep. I'll open the window later."
He adjusted his glasses, glanced at Ji Wanmei who was leaning against Lei Tingjun's shoulder, and said nothing.
Lei Tingjun was worried that Ji Wanmei wouldn't be comfortable sleeping, so he simply carried her to the lower bunk, draped a small blanket over her, and then reached out and opened the window a little to let in some air.
"You treat your partner very well," the middle-aged man opposite said with a smile.
“It’s only right for a man to treat his partner well,” Lei Tingjun said, seemingly uninterested in further conversation.
"That's true." The person on the other end seemed to be just making a casual remark.
After leaving the major station in East China, the train traveled for another three or four hours before stopping at a small city station.
Another group of guests arrived.
Most of the passengers were either in hard-seat carriages or had standing tickets.
In this era, passengers without standing tickets either didn't have enough money to buy a seat or sleeper ticket, or they bought their tickets too late and failed to get a seat, but were in a hurry.
Just like Lei Tingjun last year, he had to buy a standing ticket because all the other tickets were sold out, and he had to buy a standing ticket so that he could be in the same workshop as Ji Wanmei.
However, there is another type of person: train pickpockets.
They specifically buy standing tickets so that they can freely move around and wander on the train.
They would take advantage of passengers who looked wealthy but weren't paying much attention.
Then they would get off at the next stop, or immediately flee to other carriages and blend into the crowd, so that even if the robbed passenger discovered that their belongings were missing, they would not be able to find them.
In those days, technology and investigative methods were not as advanced.
These train pickpockets often prefer to target sleeper carriages.
Because those who can afford sleeper carriages are generally wealthy people.
Moreover, most of them have long-distance tickets and will sleep on the train at night.
Once the passengers are asleep and their guard is down, these pickpockets will sneak out and steal without anyone noticing.
In broad daylight, these people wouldn't dare to be so blatant.
As soon as the train stopped at the platform, Ji Wanmei was fine.
She sat up groggily, the small blanket on her shoulder slipping down. She glanced out of the carriage door and asked Lei Tingjun, "Where are we?"
Lei Tingjun was still sitting by the window reading a book. Hearing this, he turned around and said softly, "It's still early at the stop along the way. You can sleep a little longer."
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